Editor’s Note: This is a RERUN from the Being Geek Chic archives. I’m taking a bit of a break this week, so please enjoy these classics from the BGC archives while I’m away.
The editors at TechCrunch and writer Penelope Trunk knew they were going to start a flame war when they posted this article last night: “Stop telling women to do startups”.
The basic premise?
“We need to get more guys who are running tech startups instead decide to be stay-at-home dads.
What do you think of that? Stupid, right? That’s what it sounds like when anyone suggests that we need to get more women doing startups.”
This is Trunk’s assertion. Her article goes on to infer that TEDxWomen might as well be TEDxGhetto, but that’s neither here nor there.
Here’s a new rule: Women should do what they want, but they also shouldn’t be prevented from succeeding because they made a choice (in all likelihood in consultation with a partner) to create a family.